Kosmos 605
| Mission type | Bioscience |
|---|---|
| Operator | Institute of Biomedical Problems |
| COSPAR ID | 1973-083A |
| SATCAT № | 06913 |
| Mission duration | 21.5 days |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft type | Bion |
| Manufacturer | TsSKB |
| Launch mass | 5,500 kilograms (12,100 lb) |
| Landing mass | 900 kilograms (2,000 lb) |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 31 October 1973, 18:24:59 UTC |
| Rocket | Soyuz-U |
| Launch site | Plesetsk 43/3 |
| End of mission | |
| Landing date | 22 November 1973, 07:12 UTC |
| Landing site |
53°29′N 65°27′E / 53.483°N 65.450°E Sarykol, Kazakh SSR, USSR |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric |
| Regime | LEO |
| Eccentricity | 0.0130338 |
| Perigee | 212 kilometres (132 mi) |
| Apogee | 386 kilometres (240 mi) |
| Inclination | 62.7999º |
| Period | 93.1 minutes |
| RAAN | 192.1415 degrees |
| Argument of perigee | 113.7984 degrees |
| Mean anomaly | 247.6840 degrees |
| Mean motion | 15.91198635 |
| Epoch | 19 November 1973, 22:36:39 UTC[1] |
| Revolution number | 305 |
Kosmos 605 (Russian: Космос 605 meaning Cosmos 605), or Bion No.1 was a Bion satellite.
Mission
It carried several dozen male rats (possibly 25[2] or 45[3]), six Russian tortoises (Agrionemys horsfieldii)[4] (each in a separate box), a mushroom bed, flour beetles (Tribolium confusum[3]) in various stages of their life cycle, and living bacterial spores. It provided data on the reaction of mammal, reptile, insect, fungal, and bacterial forms to prolonged weightlessness.[5]
Launch
Kosmos 605 was launched by a Soyuz-U rocket flying from Site 43/3 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the Soviet Union. The satellite was initially launched in a low Earth orbit with a perigee of 221 kilometers and a 424 km apogee with an orbital inclination of 62.8 degrees. The spacecraft orbited the Earth for 21 days until their biological capsule returned to Earth on November 22, 1973 in a region of northwestern present-day Kazakhstan.
See also
References
- ↑ Chris Peat. COSMOS 605. Heavens-Above. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
- ↑ Brian Harvey, Olga Zakutnyaya (2011). Russian Space Probes. Springer. p. 448. doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-8150-9. ISBN 978-1-4419-8149-3. Retrieved 2014-03-08.
- 1 2 "PowerPoint Presentation" (PDF). 130.26.92.88. Retrieved 2014-03-08.
- ↑ Bion 1 Data Archive
- ↑ "NASA - NSSDC - Spacecraft - Details". Nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. 2013-08-16. Retrieved 2014-03-08.